Name changed here because it might relate to a uni assignment I'm doing and don't want a trail of my posts, should someone suss me out ; I just discovered that prostitution was decriminalised in Spain and resulted in massive increases in prostitution. I'm using that term very specifically, because 'sex work' can be used as an umbrella term, not to be offensive. I've seen that Bindel claims that the same happened in NZ, but there is a lot of rebuttal of that.
Spain rarely seems to be mentioned, however. Got me thinking that could decriminalisation in NZ be different if it is -and I'm having trouble finding peer-reviewed info on both Spain and NZ on this than in Spain in much the same way that the impact of Corona has been different? Firstly, it's hard for most people to actually get to NZ, whereas Spain has open borders with the entire EU, plus strong links with South America.
Human trafficking seems to have played a significant role in the Spanish situation. That would surely be far harder in New Zealand - you can't just drive for a day or two and end up there. Secondly, New Zealand also is sparsely populated, so the centres where prostitution would have the client-base to thrive, are far less in NZ than Spain.
These are just thoughts. I'm wondering if anybody else has more on this - maybe I've actually misunderstood it. I've found it very hard to actually find data on this, in particular peer-reviewed data. I'm, sadly, not finding that surprising either Do you mean Julie Bindel? I'd be very interested in what she had to say about this and everything else! Do you have a link, please? One tactic of recruitment into prostitution is to get girls and young women addicted to the meth they deal in People are scared that by condemning it , they will be seen as not liberal, aligned with the church etc.
More lately with loss of income the sex work narrative is used to defend the indefensible. There is a big trade across the borders and I read that about a third of males use prostituted women.
